MusicalTitle (Year)• Singing In the Rain (1952)Running time: 102 minutesMPAA rating: GFilm Genre (s)• MusicalProduction Company (ies)• MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) StudioProducer• Authur FreedDirector (s)• Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1912-1996)Production Budget & Cost• Budget: $2 million • Cost: $2.5 millionCommercially (Box-office)• Box-office gross: $7.7 million worldwideCritically (from film critics)• Basically ignored by film critics when released and treated with indifferenceAwards • Nominations: Best Supporting Actress (Jean Hagen), Best Musical Score (Lennie Hayton)• No awards1953 (25th Oscar) 《戏王之王》Significance• Transitional period from silent movies to talkies • Studio System, Star SystemPoster1. A 3-color dye transfer system2. Rich, bright, vivid colorsStarring• Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly)• Cosmo Brown (Donald O’ Connor)• Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) • Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen)• R.F. Simpson (Millard Mitchell)Don & Lina: screen loversThe Duelling Cavalier （决斗的骑士First encounter with KathyStudio setsCosmo: Make them LaughLina’s shrill, screechy （尖声的） accent Sound RecordingGood MorningCosmo’s ProposalKathy dub （配音） behind the scenes for lip-synching（对口型） Lina Title Song:Singing in the Raina scheme to expose Lina’s vanity（虚荣） and put Kathy in limelight.One gang, “Jets”, American whites, Riff, TonyRival gang, “Sharks”, Puerto Rican immigrants, Bernardo, MariaNew York slumdog centerManhattan street in 1950sBalcony scene
